European Administrative Law

Objectives

The course European Administrative Law intends to provide the masters students of the specialisations Public Law and International and European Law with the fundamental knowledge of European Administrative Law - intended as the EU law that governs the administrative implementation of EU rules be it at the level of the EU or of the national administration - not only from a historical, political and theoretical perspetive, but also from an essentially practical standpoint. Besides learning the essentials on the Union's administrative organisation and the principles regulating the Union's multilevel administrative activity, students will develop a robust knowledge of the ways in which EU administrative law relates to EU law and European integration, on the one hand, and of the ways in which EU administrative law represents an extension of administrative law, which was historically confined within the limits of the sovereign nation-state. students should develop the skills necessary to think critically about the regimes of EU administrative law - including Europeanized national administrative law -, to identify practical legal problems linked to it whenever they meet such problems in their professional lives, and autonomously develop their own solutions to solve them.


General characterization

Code

37008

Credits

Available soon

Responsible teacher

Filipe Brito Bastos

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 112

Teaching language

Available soon

Prerequisites

Not Applicable

Bibliography

Not Applicable

Teaching method

Teaching methods will be interactive and rely on extensive discussion and dialogue with students. The critical analysis of case law and debates will be a core aspect of classes and of the learning process as a whole.


Evaluation method

Students will be evaluated in a final essay or, alternatively in a final written exam.


Subject matter

The course European Administrative Law, taught in the Masters of Public Law and International and European Law, aims to provide students with the doctrinal and practical knowledge of the most important legal-administrative phenomena governed by European Union law. European Administrative Law consists of the rules of Union law that apply to the Union's own administration - such as the European Commission and European Agencies - and to national administrations when imlementing Union law.



The curricular unit, which presupposes but an elementary prior knowledge of Union Law and Administrative Law (Portuguese), consists of five parts. The first focuses on the historical, constitutional and political coordinates of European Administrative Law, as well as on matters of administrative organization within the framework of the European Union and the general principles of Administrative Law that apply to the activity of both European administration and national administrations. The second part deals with the law applicable to the Union's own administration; the third addresses the law applicable to national administrative entities involved in the application of Union law. The fourth part of the course discusses the essential aspects of the regime for the protection of private or public entities subject to the administrative power of the Union from the point of view of judicial and non-judicial remedies, the latter having in recent years proved to be of increasing practical relevance. The fifth part analyzes the various constellations of cooperation within the framework of multilevel administration and discusses several of the complex legal problems that they generate in practice.